As the advanced-placement economics students file into Room 339 at Stuyvesant High School in Lower Manhattan, Clarissa Bushman displays a graph on the overhead projector.
Some students at Stuyvesant High School near the World Trade Center wreckage are worried that the still-smoldering debris has been making them and their teachers ill.
Some students who had been accepted to Grace Church's new high school, which will open next year, instead chose Stuyvesant High School, LaGuardia and others, he said.
Just one month later at Stuyvesant high school, students used cell phones to share test questions and answers on the 2012 Regents exams, a test used by New York State to evaluate core subjects.
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Asch, a former librarian at Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan, and Meltz, the chief of police at the Bedford Veterans Administration Medical Center in Massachusetts, were arrested last week and charged in a plot to kidnap, rape, torture and kill women, children and infants.
Recent cheating scandals, at Harvard University and elite Manhattan public high school Stuyvesant, have brought new attention to the increasingly grey area of academic integrity.
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As a parent of a 15-year-old who goes to Stuyvesant, a test-in public high school with a rigorous curriculum and frequent tests, I am ambivalent about the notion that schools across the country would adopt yet more tests.
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Stuyvesant along with other elite New York public high schools must dismantle all vestiges of the resentful, biased, and anti-meritocratic quota system pushed on many elite New York public high schools as far back as 1968, which has likely enabled the admission of students fundamentally unprepared for its academic rigor.
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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a federal civil rights complaint against the city's Specialized High School Admissions test, which decides admissions to elite programs such as Stuyvesant.
Stuyvesant is widely regarded as the best of the nine free New York City public high schools that select students based on a highly competitive Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT).
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